New leader making gains

Région Bretagne CMB – Performance (Gaston Morvan/Anne-Claire Le Berre) took the lead of the Transat Paprec yesterday evening and have built themselves a margin of over ten miles already over second placed Mutuelle Bleue (Corentin Horeau/Pauline Courtois). And Arnaud Machado and Lucie Quéruel (Groupe Hélios – De Léman a l’ocean) have returned to the race course after making sail repairs in La Palma. Machado and Quérel were making 11kts this morning and their sail repairs are reported to be holding up but they are over 380 miles behind the lead group. 

Morvan and Le Berre were the first to gybe south yesterday seeking the stronger trade winds and they profited visibly in the 18-20kts breeze and 2 metre following swell. 

“There is more wind in the south and so Gaston and Anne Claire have put themselves in a very nice position. They are in the same piece of ocean and the same weather but they can now also cover if any of their rivals chose to dig south again, they can control the fleet for the meantime.” Highlighted Francis Le Goff, Race Director.